Jozef Oostfries
Jozef Oostfries (1628–1661) was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.
Detail of stained-glass window #6 showing an allegory in celebration of the Peace of Münster in 1648, designed by Oostfries in 1655 for the Grote Kerk, De Rijp
Biography
Oostfries was born in Hoorn. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of the glasspainter Jan Maartz Engelsman and the older brother and teacher of Catharina Oostfries, who kept up her drawing and glass painting into her seventies.[1] His pupil was Jan Slob.[1]
References
- (in Dutch) Jozef Oostfries Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- Jozef Oostfries in Catharina Oostfries biography on inghist
- stained glass window in church of De Rijp
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